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Bangkok, August 31, 2015--A radio anchor was shot dead on Thursday in the Philippines, the third journalist to be killed in the country in unclear circumstances in two weeks. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Philippine authorities to thoroughly investigate the killings, identify the motives, and bring the perpetrators to justice.

Bangkok, February 18, 2015--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Philippine authorities to investigate the murder on Saturday of radio journalist Maurito Lim and bring the assailant to justice.

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Bangkok, January 9, 2015--The Committee to Protect Journalist calls on authorities in the Philippines to identify the motive in Thursday's murder of tabloid reporter Nerlita Ledesma and bring the perpetrators swiftly to justice.

Another Philippine journalist was killed in a drive-by
shooting on Wednesday, bringing to at least six the total slain in the country
this year. In none of the cases have police determined whether they were killed
because of their work as journalists or for other reasons. The investigations
into the cases appear to have gone nowhere and get only brief media attention.

The
climate of impunity that fostered the November 23, 2009, massacre of 57
people, including 32 journalists, is alive and well not only on the southern
Philippines island of Mindanao, where the massacre took place, but in all of
the country. The revelation that the brutalized body of a key witness to the
killings, Esmail Enog, was found two months after he had gone missing is an
indicator of that. Enog testified last year that he had driven gunmen to the
site of the November massacre, news reports said. The killings wiped out almost
an entire generation of journalists in the region.

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New
York, May 8, 2012--Authorities in the Philippines must investigate the murders
of two journalists in the past two weeks, determine the motive, and bring the
perpetrators to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Romeo Olea's unsolved murder is tragically typical of
media killings in the Philippines. Before his death, the radio commentator had
received anonymous threats over his reports on local government corruption.

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New York, March 12, 2012--Philippine authorities must
immediately launch an investigation into the shooting of journalist Fernan
Angeles, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. CPJ is investigating
the motive in the attack, which left the journalist hospitalized in critical
condition today.

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Nearly two years since 32 journalists were murdered, the fight for justice has both intensified in rhetoric and bogged down in technicalities. Without a greater commitment of resources, the litmus test is one the Philippines could fail. By Shawn W. Crispin